Cosmopolitanism, previously inherent in only a few largest cities in the world, becomes the norm of life, an indicator of the success and development of the city, its inclusion in world processes.

OZ planned to publish an issue dedicated to the city three years ago, but then a crisis intervened, freezing the magazine for a long time. Returning to the topic today, we were surprised to find that it had suddenly become extremely popular.

What is Mountain Altai? In fact, this is an invented laboratory. Social Laboratory of the Russian Federation. The city of Gorno-Altaysk stubbornly and consistently consumes federal subsidies for capital construction. Now a huge new building of the local history museum is being completed there. Not bad. Very large. At the top of this museum there will be a mini-pavilion for a poor Chinese princess, who was traveling to someone, but did not reach.

When discussing housing issues in Western Europe, we are talking about rights and obligations, discussing Eastern Europe, we are talking about pipes and square meters. Peter Marcuse [1] Only 25 years ago, when it had not yet happened in Russia, and in other countries (except Great Britain) of housing, there were no apartment owners, but there were “residents”. Then all the problems associated with residents almost always meant the problems of tenants.

The development of cities was also ruled in the distant past. The construction of palaces, fortresses and cathedrals, the breakdown of squares and residential quarters (or “ends”, as they were called in Old Russian cities) were regulated by the rules and was even planned. A striking example is the beautiful Prague. In the middle of the XIV century, Emperor Charles IV began the indigenous reconstruction of the city.

Disputes about the fate of wooden Irkutsk have been going on for many years. Someone offers to totally eliminate the “rot”, “ugly regional center”, having arranged parks and squares in their place, or turn the territory they occupy into the zones of modern low-rise buildings-blocked city cottages. Someone is categorically against, because there are a great many buildings of glass and concrete in the world, and Irkutsk wooden architecture is unique and unique.

Trends in the last 20 years Print Lilia Karachurina In recent years, Russian cities have changed a lot: the structure of production and consumption, a social organization, and a residential environment have become others. And yet - a lot in the development of cities and urbanization was laid much earlier.

We sent this number of Oz to the printing house, when we received ridiculous news, Glazychev died. He always helped us. Helped to bring to mind this number. Although he was more important than the matter. In this, he is conscientious, friendly, incredibly generous. A person with the appearance of either the Lord, or the Fleibuster, who has never been sitting in place, who did not seek peace, greedy to work and to happiness. Glazychev was antitrust.

Appenzeller Markus Dutch architect, urbanist. He teaches at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. Working as part of the Dutch bureau KCAP, he was the lead architect of such projects as the development of the strategic master plan for the city of Perm and the post-Olympic use plan for the London Olympic Park, built for the 2012 Games. Member of the working group on the revitalization of Vladikavkaz, as well as the regeneration plan for the Sunan district in Shenzhen (PRC).

* 1 “Domestic Notes”: Tell us about the expansion of Moscow. Whose idea is this, what is the interest of those who promoted it? Vyacheslav Glazychev: The expansion of Moscow is a fact. Physical. Long time ago. With a huge history. But de jure this is not formalized in any way in the history of our wonderful country. For 15 years nothing worked. During this time, Moscow inflated land and real estate prices to heavenly heights.

In the social world, what people believe about him are really. Many believe that the aliens are insidiously abducted by people, and in the spring they need to set fire to the grass. And therefore, on the planet annually, thousands of people suffer from abduction by cruel aliens and fires arise, and other people have to treat the abducted, persuade them to be attached and hold on, extinguish fires and calculate the damage.

Kondopoga is a place widely known for its long-standing scandal - the restaurant massacre. A monotown, by the way, in its purest form. The paper mill, which operates largely for export, has undertaken some environmental upgrades. The lip of Lake Onega, which several years ago was covered with some kind of nasty green foam, has cleared up. I saw it. In Soviet style, the plant at one time deployed an absolutely gigantic infrastructure, which is now impossible to maintain.

One of the main functions of the state is the provision of the population, and first of all to business, power services, that is, services for the production and maintenance of order, defined and understandable to all the rules of the game. The establishment of such rules, as well as control over their implementation, make the state legitimate in the eyes of the population. And just these rules, and most importantly - the procedures for their execution, today are extremely blurry.

Perm is an adultery case. Ex-Governor of the Perm Territory Oleg Chirkunov is an extraordinary person. He was well played by Sergey Gordeev, a member of the Federation Council from the Perm Territory. A person in love with architecture, by the way. Gordeev’s influence was initially very significant. The third character is Marat Gelman. He has his own funny trouble: how to make some changes through a provocation in the cultural community. I can say right away that he succeeded the main change.

In the 1930s, there were few cars in Moscow, and there were no private cars at all, except for Renault brought by Mayakovsky as a gift to Lily Brik, and three cars, which Alexei Tolstoy boasted of Bunina. But great people differ from you and me in that they see where everything is moving. Cars, in particular, moved towards a complete victory over pedestrians. Penal Ilf and Petrov, not even having time to visit New York, realized that it was time to defend pedestrians.